We receive a tip about a crime syndicate running illegal underground death races in the lower streets of Sharn, brutal affairs with death, gambling and punk rock. The kind of thing I never knew I wanted. The tip says that Bubba Graham runs this show, so we start scouring the streets hoping to get close to him and gather some information, they say that this syndicate is a puppet run by a foreign power trying to quietly move into the city.

Our search begins at a dive bar called the Rage Coach, we show our ids to the bouncer and pay the cover. My gold is burning a hole in my pocket, and I ask the barkeep for a bookie, but they call me a cop and stonewall me, I take some shots and let my team take over until we’re outta this joint. They chat around the bar and hear from a fellow called motorcycle-riding-Dave say that the starting line is over at Luigi’s. We hustle over there and see a crowd with signs of support to two main racers, Sonny and Frankenstein. We flag down a bookie and place our bets before they start their engines. Once the race begins and the bookie is less swamped, I approach him asking about potential working in the announcer’s booth for the races, he relents and hands me a card to Bubba’s speakeasy called Black Irish and we march over immediately. Inside there’s a VIP area where Bubba and a gnome associate of his are arguing about the racer Sonny not being on their payroll and represents a rogue element in their race fixing scheme. The gnome storms off and Velcro finesses her way into his Bubba’s booth.

They talk and he proclaims himself a local boy doing his best to help his community. He doesn’t seem to know too much about Sonny and asks Velcro to follow him up into his penthouse. I go invisible and follow them in case he tries anything. Once in the penthouse he asks Velcro to do some dog grooming for him, while he’s distracted, I lift a golden cube off of his shelf and take it for myself. We all travel back downstairs, and I remove my invisibility in a bathroom stall and share an uncomfortable stare with a bathroom attendant. I reconvene with the group, and he hires us as animal groomers for his upcoming dinosaur battle racing circuit. We march over the warehouse to check things out.

Inside we start looking around. Before we get anything done, Sonny and Frankenstein crash through the windows into the warehouse. She claims to be “taking what’s hers” and dukes it out with Frankenstein, I bellow tones of encouragement to help her win the engagement and we push upstairs to chase after Bubba’s gnome associate. He sends his guards after us and we handle them but as we try to evacuate with him Sonny blocks our way and demands we hand him over, depleted and confused we hand him over and she butchers the gnome and nods at us. Her and Frankenstein both seem to be part of some kind of military modification program, but we can’t gather the details. We do our grooming and scatter, hoping we made a powerful ally in the underground. This cube really fascinates me…